2018 AFL Round 15
COLLINGWOOD
v
GOLD COAST
Time & Place:
Saturday June 30, 7:25pm EST
Carrara Stadium Gold Coast
Fox Sports 7:00pm EST
Weather:
Min 15 Max 24
Chance of rain 60%: < 1mm
Wind: NNE 19kph
Betting:
Collingwood $1.14
Gold Coast $5.75 |
B: Brayden Maynard, Lynden Dunn, Jack Crisp
HB: Jeremy Howe, Matthew Scharenberg, Tom Langdon
C: Steele Sidebottom, Scott Pendlebury, Tom Phillips
HF: Jordan De Goey, Brody Mihocek, Will Hoskin-Elliott
F: Josh Thomas, Mason Cox, Jaidyn Stephenson
Foll: Brodie Grundy, Taylor Adams, Josh Daicos
Int: Flynn Appleby, Ben Crocker, Chris Mayne, Brayden Sier
IN: Ben Crocker, Brayden Sier
OUT: Adam Treloar (hamstring), Levi Greenwood (concussion)
NEW: Brayden Sier (20, Northern U18)
Collingwood has been forced to make two changes to its team for Saturday night’s game against Gold Coast.
Adam Treloar (hamstring) and Levi Greenwood (concussion)
have been ruled out, with the pair replaced by emerging players Brayden
Sier and Ben Crocker.
Sier, 20, will make his AFL debut after showing great form in the VFL in recent weeks.
Crocker is back in the AFL team for the first time since the loss to Geelong in round eight.
He kicked five of Collingwood’s 10 goals in the narrow VFL loss to the Northern Blues at the Holden Centre last weekend.
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- R17, 2017, Collingwood 15.13 (103) d Gold Coast 13.10 (88) at Metricon Stadium
- R22, 2016, Collingwood 16.22 (118) d Gold Coast 6.11 (47) at Etihad Stadium
- R8, 2015, Collingwood 20.12 (132) d Gold Coast 9.9 (63) at Metricon Stadium
- R16, 2014, Gold Coast 11.14 (80) d Collingwood 10.15 (75) at Metricon Stadium
- R17, 2013, Gold Coast 13.7 (85) d Collingwood 11.12 (78) at Metricon Stadium
Collingwood: 4 Gold Coast: 15
- Travis Varcoe (hamstring) - test
- Jamie Elliott (hamstring) - 1-2 weeks
- Darcy Moore (hamstring) - 1-2 weeks
- Josh Smith (hamstring) - 1-2 weeks
- Ben Reid (leg) – 1-2 weeks
- James Aish (knee) - 2-3 weeks
- Jarryd Blair (hamstring) - 2-3 weeks
- Alex Fasolo (ankle) - 3-4 weeks
- Adam Treloar (hamstrings) - 8-9 weeks
- Kayle Kirby (medical condition) – indefinite
- Tim Broomhead (leg) – season
- Tyson Goldsack (knee) – season
- Daniel Wells (foot) - season
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Collingwood has stormed into the top four off the back of five straight wins and is strongly favoured to continue its run against the struggling Suns. Despite the loss of ace midfielder Adam Treloar, the Magpies have proven so far in 2018 they have a glut of players that can effectively run through the middle of the ground and provide their speedy, smaller forward line – apart from Mason Cox – plenty of opportunities. Conversely, Gold Coast are in a hole. They've lost eight straight games, and apart from the narrow loss to St Kilda in their last home game, have struggled to compete. The return of Peter Wright last week gave the Suns a nice one-two punch in the forward line alongside Tom Lynch, but the big area of improvement needs to come in the middle of the ground. Can the Suns match the powerful running of Collingwood's midfielders, and can their defenders stop their mobile forwards? On recent evidence, the answer is no on all counts. The Magpies should win this one easily.
- It was tight for three quarters the last time they played with Collingwood leading by one point at the final change. The Magpies kicked five goals to three in the last quarter to win, led by 32 disposals apiece from Steele Sidebottom and Adam Treloar.
- It will be a contest between the AFL's highest disposal team and the lowest, with Collingwood (413.7 a game) on top, and the Suns (335.7 a game) the bottom.
- This is the eighth clash between the clubs with Collingwood winning five games to two. Both of the Suns' wins have come at Metricon Stadium (from five matches).
- The Suns continue to struggle in second halves. They’ve been goalless in at least one quarter in each of their past five second halves and in final quarters they're minus-220 points for the season.
- Collingwood will be aiming for six consecutive wins for the first time since they won 10 in a row early in 2012. Gold Coast has now lost 18 of their past 21 matches.
- The Magpies have three players in the top 10 (Scott Pendlebury, Brodie Grundy, Adam Treloar) and six in the top 50 of the AFL's Official Player Ratings, while Jarryd Lyons (35th) is the only Gold Coast player in the same range.
IT'S A BIG WEEK FOR … Jarrod Witts
Not only is Jarrod Witts playing his old club – and any player wants to do well there – but he is playing one of the form players in the competition in Brodie Grundy. The pair know each other well from their time at the Magpies together, and Witts is going to have to play his best game to provide his midfield with the help it needs to cause an upset.
PREDICTION: Collingwood by 30 points |
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